All in all a great laptop, but the battery is not enough, with active use I have enough for 1-3 hoursI have a bunch of 10-year-old+ Dell Studio 1558s (in fact, I'm on the road typing this reply on one now). There are a zillion different configs (after all, Dell sold these with over 200 different lid styles alone), but it is possible to find / build one with an insane configuration. This one has 16GB RAM, 4G cellular data, AX WiFi6, Blu-ray burner, 1920 x 1080 matte screen, backlit keyboard, yadda-yadda. Building one isn't for the faint of heart (1558s have a well-deserved reputation for melting, there are no official Windows 10/11 drivers, etc.)
If you're interested in how I did this, start here.
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